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GINGERBREAD RECIPE FOR GINGERBREAD

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1/2 c. butter, softened

1/2 c. brown sugar

1/2 c. molasses

3 1/2 c. all-purpose flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. ginger

1/2 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. cloves

1/3 c. water

Cream butter and sugar thoroughly with electric mixer. Beat in molasses. Blend all dry ingredients. Alternately add blended dry ingredients and water to the butter-sugar mixture. Dough will become stiff, so that the last dry addition may need to be blended by hand. Work dough until it is smooth in consistency. If dough sticks to your hands, lightly dust them with flour. Carefully though, too much flour makes dough dry and hard.

When dough is easy to work, you're ready to roll it out and make your gingerbread house pieces. If you're not going to make your gingerbread house right away, wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate (up to 1 week). Bring to room temperature before rolling (3 hours).

Note: You may need to make up to 3 recipes to make your gingerbread house. Make each separately and cover with plastic wrap. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

Patterns for gingerbread houses may be of your own design or found in Gingerbread kits. Be sure to cut two front-back pieces, two side walls and two roof pieces.

Gingerbread House Notes:

1. The secret to a perfect Gingerbread House is to roll out the dough on the back of your cookie sheet and cut around the pattern (removing only the dough from around the pattern). Bake on back of cookie sheet.

2. After baking the house pieces, place the pattern over each part while they are still warm and trim to pattern size any puffy or out of shape lines.

3. After baking, remove from cookie sheets and let dry overnight on oven racks in a 200 degree oven. You want all pieces to be solid and dry (like bricks).

4. Use stiff consistency Royal icing to glue walls together and decorate with candies.

Gingerbread Model House?

I encourage you to make it out of real gingerbread. It is not that hard and you can make the roof removable if you put the gingerbread on cardboard first. Here is a really good website with detailed instructions and templates. It would actually be easier if you use real gingerbread glued to cardboard the size of the templates.

One tip, however. Use a glue gun and don't try to hold the thing together with icing. I have never had luck with that. No it is not edible in the end, but it works much better.

Put an oven inside that is made of cardboard and black licorice glued on it. For flames use orange cellophane and red hots. I did that one time and people went nuts over it. :-)

Don't wait to the last minute, do it in stages starting 3 -5 days before the project is due. Things need to sit and settle. Just make sure you cover it up each night with a garbage bag or a piece of plastic.

Have fun!

where dod i get a gingerbread house recipe?

Victorian Gingerbread House

•1/2 cup shortening

•1/2 cup sugar

•1 teaspoon baking powder

•1 teaspoon ground ginger

•1/2 teaspoon baking soda

•1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

•1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

•1/2 cup molasses

•1 egg

•1 tablespoon vinegar

•2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

•Assorted candies

•1 recipe Stained-Glass Window Panes (see below)

•1 recipe Royal Icing (see below)

2. In a large mixing bowl, beat shortening with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar, baking powder, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, and cloves. Beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in molasses, egg, and vinegar. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with mixer. Using a wooden spoon, stir in any remaining flour.

3. Cover and chill for about 3 hours or until dough is easy to handle. Cut and bake as directed.

4. Enlarge the patterns as directed. If desired, cover both sides of pattern pieces with clear adhesive plastic to protect them. Lightly grease the back of a 15 x 10 x 1-inch baking pan. If desired, place the pan on a damp towel to prevent it from sliding.

5. Roll some of the dough to 1/4-inch thickness on greased pan. Place some pattern pieces 1 inch apart on dough. Cut around patterns with a sharp knife. Remove excess dough (save for rerolling), leaving dough cutouts on pan. Cut out windows.

6. Bake in a 375 degree F oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are lightly browned and centers are just firm. Leaving warm, baked gingerbread on the pan, replace pattern pieces and trim edges exactly. Return gingerbread to oven and bake 3 minutes more or until very firm. Cool 3 minutes on pan. Loosen bottoms of gingerbread pieces with a spatula. Cool completely on pan. Transfer to wire racks. Repeat with remaining dough and pattern pieces. If you allow gingerbread pieces to dry overnight, they will be even firmer and better for construction. Cover gingerbread pieces loosely with a towel.

Stained-Glass Window Panes:

Place about 60 hard clear candies of various colors in several rows 1/2 inch apart on a foil-lined baking sheet, mixing the colors. Bake in a 300 degree F oven about 15 minutes or until completely melted into one large sheet. Remove from oven. With a long, sharp knife, immediately score hot candy into rectangles (see illustration). You will need ten 3 x 1-1/2-inch and two 3 x 2-1/2-inch rectangles and one or two 2-1/4-inch squares. Let the scored candy cool completely. Peel off foil and break into pieces along scored lines. If desired, store several days in an airtight container, separating layers with waxed paper.

Special Cutting Instructions:

1. Cut one roof piece B from sugar cookie dough; turn pattern over to cut a second roof piece from the sugar cookie dough. Use sugar cookie dough to cut 2 roof pieces from pattern A.

2. Cut one end of piece A from gingerbread dough for the middle of the house. For the tudor-style piece for front of house, cut pattern A on the dotted line. Roll out some gingerbread dough and some sugar cookie dough on a lightly floured surface. Cut the rectangular piece of pattern A from gingerbread dough. Cut the triangular piece of the pattern from sugar cookie dough. Place the 2 pieces on a lightly greased cookie sheet with long edges touching. Roll lightly to seal the seam. For the beams, cut 1/4-inch-wide strips from scraps of gingerbread dough. Place the gingerbread strips on the sugar cookie dough end piece for Tudor appearance (see illustration).

3. Using gingerbread dough, cut 2 sides from pattern A, 2 ends from pattern B, 2 sides from pattern B, and 3 chimney pieces from pattern B.

Decorations and Assembly

What You Need:

•2 recipes Royal Icing (see below)

•Paste food coloring

•Waffle-crème cookies

•Fruit-flavored gummy circle candies

•Tiny candy-coated tart candies

•Multicolored nonpareils

•Graham cracker squares

•Honey-roasted peanut halves

•Frosted bite-size shredded wheat biscuits

•Peppermint candy sticks

•Gumdrops

Instructions:

Assemble and display the cottage on waxed paper-covered quilt batting set on a large tray or wooden cutting board. Pipe Royal Icing from a decorator bag fitted with small decorator tips, or spread icing to fasten pieces together. Experiment to find the right amount of icing to use. If you apply too little icing, the pieces won't stay together, yet too much icing takes too long to dry. Let pieces stand about 1 hour or until the icing is dry before continuing.

1. Prepare Royal Icing; tint as desired with paste food coloring. Using white icing, pipe an outline of windows on sides A and B. Pipe on door and door trims on Tudor-style end piece A. Using yellow icing, fill in windows on house and door. Pipe on windowpanes. Fill in door with red icing. If desired, pipe Christmas light strings on tudor beams or use icing to attach colored candies to look like a string of lights.

2. Separate waffle-crème cookies into 2 layers. Attach one cookie layer by each window for a shutter. Attach fruit-flavored circle candies for wreaths by door and tiny tart candy pieces above windows. If desired, use green icing and a medium star tip to pipe a tree in one window; decorate with nonpareils. Using red icing and the small round tip, pipe a bow on each shutter and wreath. For lights, pipe on icing and use a small round tip to pipe small dabs of red, green, blue, and yellow icing or add colored candy pieces to icing. Let icing dry thoroughly.

3. For porch, cut a graham cracker square in half lengthwise. Cut another square in half diagonally. Decorate a triangle as desired with frosting and nonpareils. Discard remaining triangle. Assemble the porch roof; attach it to Tudor-style end pieces A. Let icing dry thoroughly before assembling the cottage.

. Working on a surface covered with quilt batting, pipe icing through a star tip to assemble section A, joining sides and ends. Press pieces together. Assemble section B next to section A. Use a few dabs of icing to hold the end sections of A and B together. Use glass measuring cups or heavy coffee mugs to hold pieces upright and steady until icing dries thoroughly.

5. Using a star tip to pipe icing on edges of sides and end pieces of both sections of house, press roof pieces into position, placing the notched ends of roof sections B at the outside edge (see illustration). This notched area allows room for the chimney.

6. Join the three chimney pieces with icing, making one thicker piece; attach chimney to end of house section B, fitting chimney into notched area of roof. Spread one area of chimney with icing. Place peanut halves in icing, allowing a little space between them so they'll look like stones (see illustration). Repeat until chimney is covered with icing and nuts. Let dry.

7. Spread part of a roof section generously with icing. Press frosted wheat biscuits into the frosting, staggering the rows like shingles. Attach peppermint sticks to peaks of both roof sections. Use peppermint sticks and icing to support porch roof.

8. Touch a star tip to edge of roof. Squeeze the decorator bag gently; then pull down to taper the frosting to a point. Pull the tip away. Repeat around all the edges of roof to make icicles. Add other candy trims.